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Bing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine") from Microsoft. Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego. It went fully online on June 3, 2009, with a preview version released on June 1, 2009.

Notable changes include the listing of search suggestions as queries are entered and a list of related searches (called "Explore pane") based on semantic technology from Powerset that Microsoft purchased in 2008.

On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search. All Yahoo! Search global customers and partners are expected to have made the transition by early 2012.

In October 2011, Bing announced it was working on new back-end search infrastructure, with the goal of delivering faster and slightly more relevant search results for users. Known as "Tiger," the new index-serving technology has been...

During Twitter's fourth quarter earnings on Thursday, CEO Dick Costolo confirmed the reports: Twitter and Google are partners once again. Costolo declined to share many details about the deal, which was widely reported on Wednesday. That left plenty ...

European citizens who want their names removed from search results now have a second search engine they can ask to "forget" them -- Bing. Microsoft is now taking "right to be forgotten" requests to remove search results from Bing. The move comes more...

Microsoft will play host to thousands of developers, partners and press at its annual Build conference this week. The company and newbie CEO Satya Nadella have a lot on the agenda, covering everything from Windows to Office to devices. Didn't we just...

Want to get an advance look at what Microsoft has cooking in the first big update to Windows 8.1? You're in luck: The update is now available online, but not from Microsoft. Several file locker sites now host the Windows 8.1 Update 1, thanks to an ap...

Microsoft is investing $15 million in Foursquare as part of a licensing deal that will incorporate the the location-based service's data into Microsoft's web and mobile platforms. The four-year deal, announced Tuesday, makes Microsoft the largest lic...

Monday's Google Doodle honors the legendary civil rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as the nation celebrates with parades, marches and church sermons. King was born on Jan. 15, 1929, and the federal holiday that celebrates his life fa...

Bing is making sure that you never, ever miss an ad again. Microsoft's search engine is offering advertisers "Hero Ads," or full-page ads, which come up when a user searches a specific company by name, according to Larry Kim, the chief technology off...

Bing is taking its fight with Google to the UK with a Pepsi Challenge-style test in which consumers bet their sweaters that Google is better. As this video shows, they frequently lose their jumpers as Bing's apparent superiority is demonstrated. The ...

Microsoft and Klout extended their partnership Friday with the introduction of new Klout-verified photos on Bing. Now when people search for you on Bing you can dictate what photo shows up in search results. You can also add links to your social medi...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. According to a report from AllThingsD, Twitter’s...

Microsoft has updated Bing's logo to be tighter, more abstract and more in line with the company's branding. The overhaul, which includes a more abstract "B" and a switch to the Segoe font, was consciously designed to give Bing more of a visual assoc...

Microsoft's Bing Maps looks like it could be the next major secret-spiller making headlines. The Internet search engine’s satellite-imaging service captured a stealth Russian fighter jet, which was previously thought to be ancient history. The airpla...

Microsoft regularly introduces new features to its Bing search engine -- such as the coming 3D maps -- but often those features can't be used outside of Bing. That changes as of today with the launch of the Bing Platform for developers. Announced tod...

If you like the Flyover feature in Apple Maps that lets you see a cityscape in 3D or Google Maps' similar graphics, that same functionality is coming to the Bing Maps app in Windows 8.1. The Maps app in Windows 8, powered by Bing, will get 3D imagery...

It was one of those blink-and-you-miss-it moments. In Monday's WWDC keynote, Apple executive Eddy Cue was running through the new iOS 7 version of Siri, when he happened to mention Siri's default search function would be powered by Bing, not Google. ...

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